Indeed, two weeks ago, an IDF official announced that Mossad 'had
significantly infiltrated Hizbullah.' After weeks of this tit-for-tat carnage
in which Lebanon has done most of the bleeding, we must ask how significant
is 'significantly'? Does it run all the way up to Nasrallah?

"Incredibly,
Nasrallah is making the same mistakes as Nasser. By puffing himself up,
he isn't deterring Israel; at this point, he's only making himself
and his movement a bigger and more legitimate target. Hezbollah has
become a prisoner of its own myth, which is that at any moment it can go one-on-one
against Israel - and win. It can't, and now is the best opportunity
to prove it - to Lebanese Shiites, to all Lebaneseand to the rest of the Arab-Muslim
world.

At any moment in time, it is Israel that can turn Nasrallah either
into a cinder or a shadow figure like Osama bin Laden, reduced to sending
defiant missives from some basement or cave.

One of the important
tools in vanquishing the adversary [is] psychological warfare,
the third oldest profession and one that is closely connected to the oldest.
Hassan Nasrallah has raised it to the level of an art and forged in Israeli
and world public opinion several cast-iron, unchallengeable insights."
. . .

"Nasrallah is credible. Nasrallah does what he promises. Nasrallah is
cool and has a far-reaching strategic vision. Nasrallah is the only leader
in our region who provoked the elephant and won." . . .

"It can easily be proved that each of these insights is simply
totally baseless and does not meet the test of reality. However,
this is not our subject and it does not matter in the least. What does matter
is the fact that they have become fixed in our consciousness and engraved
almost genetically."

So, is this a genuine struggle between Israel and Hizbullah?

"Israeli intelligence and the Mossad especially had very impressive
successes, the fruit of many years of work, which might be
able to be made public only years down the road."

We must conduct a crafty, sophisticated campaign. With foxes we
shall play the fox. Our ability to decide this campaign, and perhaps
future campaigns, too, depends in part on guile, which is
the art of hiding our flaws and of revealing and cultivating the weakness
of our enemy. The creation of disinformation.

The creation of a real or imaginary feeling in an organization
that took pride in compartmentalization and in cohesion, that in fact, it
is as full of holes as a sieve. To make even Nasrallah watch his guards suspiciously.

To create a feeling of physical insecurity and loneliness
for the hierarchy of the organization and their families, because loneliness
is the mother of all fears. To foment internal disputes and an atmosphere
of betrayal, because there is no knife as sharp and poisoned as betrayal.

Just how successful Mossad has been we may never know - until long
after Eretz Israel has been established.